SPEAKER NORMALIZATION PRESERVING REGIONAL ACCENT ...

The ability of several speaker normalization procedures to preserve differences in phonetic quality of vowels from speakers with a different regional accent is ...

Speaker normalization preserving regional accent differences in ...

Speaker normalization preserving regional accent differences in vowel quality ; All authors: Adank, P.; Heuven, V.J. van ; Editor(s): NN NN ; Date: 1999 ; Title of ...

Speaker normalisation preserving regional accent differences in ...

Speaker normalisation preserving regional accent differences in vowel quality. In Proceedings of the XIVth Conference of Phonetic Sciences.

Speaker normalisation preserving region accent differences in ...

Speaker normalisation preserving region accent differences in vowel quality ; Publisher. San Francisco : University of California ; ISBN. 1563968983 ...

Speaker Normalization in Speech Perception - eScholarship

The practical problem is that in describing the vowels of a language or dialect we feel that we must 'normalize' some of the differences between talkers so that ...

The Entanglement of Dialectal Variation and Speaker Normalization

This paper explores the relationship between speaker normalization and dialectal identity in sociolinguistic data, examining a database of vowel formants.

Speaker normalization in speech perception - UC Berkeley Linguistics

Miller's. (1989) description of vowels as trajectories through normalized space is much more in keeping ... (in my dialect) low central; the last one is a ...

A comparison of northern and southern British English speakers

The results demonstrated that some listeners normalize their vowel categorization decisions based on the accent of the carrier sentence, and that patterns of ...

Speaker normalization using cortical strip maps: A neural model for ...

A neural model is presented that performs speaker normalization to generate a pitch-independent representation of speech sounds, while also ...

Speaker and Dialect Normalization in Speech Perception

Speaker normalization is a process during speech perception through which the vocal tract variabilities of different speakers are minimized while preserving the ...

Modelling representations in speech normalization of prosodic cues

Talker normalization of speech signals produced by multiple speakers may lead to extra processing costs compared to processing of speech signals ...

SPEECH - The University of Texas at Dallas

Studies have also been conducted which attempt to normalize the influence of regional accent prior to speech recognition. In one study,. Barry et al. (1989) ...

Does a Regional Accent Perturb Speech Processing? - CORE

For instance, an exemplar-based model of speech perception developed by Johnson. (1997) does not include any speaker normalization processes per se; however, ...

[2211.13282] Voice-preserving Zero-shot Multiple Accent Conversion

Existing accent conversion models tend to change the speaker identity and accent at the same time. Here, we use adversarial learning to ...

A Comparison of Tone Normalization Methods for Language ...

If a normalization method can successfully preserve the sociolinguistic variation, the success rate for that method to predict the speaker's region would be ...

The Effects of Regional Accents on Memory and Credibility - UPF

In the case of foreign accents, they hinder communication to some extent, affecting memory (Lev Ari & Keysar, 2012) and the credibility of the speaker (Lev Ari ...

Resilience of English vowel perception across regional accent ...

In the extreme case of an unfamiliar talker whose accent is being heard for the first time, listeners may require time to 'tune in' to the ...

Speech Perception and Generalization Across Talkers and Accents

However, when patterns of variation occur across talkers (e.g., dialect or accent variation), an ideal adapter should learn talker-independent ...

General perceptual contributions to lexical tone normalization

cal tracts of male vs female speakers. Other variability such as foreign accent and dialect stems from linguistic and so- ciolinguistic experience. A result ...

What are the benefits of preserving regional accents and dialects?

We should preserve high quality audio and video recordings of people speaking dying languages before they're extinct simply because it's very ...